

Joe Versus the Volcano
An average Joe. An adventurous comedy.
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
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5.8/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $25M
- Box office
- $39.4M
- Language
- English
- escape
- terminal illness
- orange soda
- barefoot female
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-139 Mar 1990
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG6 Jul 1990
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG7 Jul 1990
BrazilBR
- Theatrical10 Aug 1990
FranceFR
- Theatrical27 Jun 1990
GermanyDE
- Theatrical626 Jul 1990
JapanJP
- PhysicalG1 Nov 1991
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/123 Aug 1990
SpainES
- Theatrical10 Aug 1990
SwedenSE
- Theatrical3 Aug 1990
XCXC
- Physical1 Mar 1992
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Joe Versus the Volcano was released on 9 March 1990.
Audience reviews
3- W5/10
Wuchak
6/26/2022
**_Good message, decent movie, albeit really odd_** That pretty much sums up this 1990 film starring Tom Hanks as a miserable man stuck in an uninspiring job. After learning he's going to die in six months, he accepts an offer to live it up for a couple of weeks and sacrifice himself in a volcano on some nondescript Pacific island. Right off the bat, the movie tips off that it's more fantasy than reality. There…
- G10/10
GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023
Bare with me here, because things are hazy. I distinctly remember renting this at our old small town independent pre-Block Buster video rental establishment. Back when it stopped selling porn (for a few years) and devoted the back room to Betamax and Laser Disc before they moved on to a bigger building. I remember riding my bike there with my father when I was ten. I remember seeing the poster in one of the two…
- K8/10
kevin2019
10/31/2025
"Joe Versus the Volcano" is a most off-beat and unusual film, but the central message it advocates is a common one. Life is worth living and this is never more relevant and meaningful than when life is slowly ebbing away and coming to an end and perhaps the circumstances leading up to that final terminal breath allows for a period of reflection. How awful would it be if all you were to see is a succession of missed o…
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